Marxist Modern
An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution
Professor Donald L Donham author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:James Currey
Published:1st Jan '99
Should be back in stock very soon
Examines the events of 1974 from Maale as well as from Addis to give a view from the margins of the state. Modernity has become a keyword in a number of intellectual debates: in marginal areas of the world as much as its centres of power and wealth. Investigating Ethiopia during the 1974 revolution, Donald Donham constructs a narrativeof upheaval and change, presenting locals' views on the events. North America: University of California Press
By simultaneously analysing unfolding events in Addis Ababa and Maale, and juxtaposing this with brief contrasting and confirming events and processes of the classic revolutions of France, Russia and China, Donham paints a fascinating picture of a peripheral people's experience of revolution and situates it within a national and global context...a very readable and sometimes even amusing book. - -- John Young * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *
Donham, unlike so many researchers who lived through various aspects of African revolutions, is able to analyse the impact of revolutionary reforms critically and without the gloss that has managed to obscure the complexities of revolution in the past. - -- Christine Mason * ASAAP *
ISBN: 9780852552643
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 396g
288 pages